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Ernst Keil vs. Prussia: Censorship and Compromise in the Amazon Affair

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Chase Richards
Chase Richards*
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Recent scholarship has cautioned us that censorship does not require a censor, nor can it be described merely as the repression of information by power. Censorship can be discursively productive, and historically it has worn many guises. This article treats a case in which state censorship practices were unstable, their execution uncertain, and their target cunning, if ultimately open to compromise. Sparked by an antiaristocratic short story in Ernst Keil's Gartenlaube (arbor, bower), the most widely read German periodical of the era, the Amazon affair involved not only its namesake ship—the Prussian S.M.S. Amazon (Amazone), a wooden corvette that sank in a storm off the coast of Holland in 1861—but an extraordinary confrontation between the conservative Prussian state and the liberal popular press. From the misstep of a weekly family magazine arose a multiyear press ban and a struggle over liberal-democratic public opinion in Germany. If no clear winner emerged from the Amazon affair, the episode nonetheless speaks to the malleability of German political culture at a moment of profound transition, as well as to the ability of the state to shape it.

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Central European History , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 533 - 567
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26 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 62.6653.

27 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 63.4726.

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41 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 63.9400. See also Gesetz-Sammlung, 285–86.

42 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 63.9767.

43 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 63.10017, emphasis in original. This view was not unanimously shared by officials: the state prosecutor Hohndorff argued that the definition of “circulation” enshrined in the 1851 Press Law was indisputably vague and that moreover a stricter interpretation would lead to the sort of financially ruinous interference decried by Morgenstern. GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 64.849. Internal dissension over censorship had emerged as a problem for the administration by the 1840s. See Ziegler, “Zensurgesetzgebung und Zensurpraxis,” 205–8.

44 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 63.9889/64.113.

45 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 64.227/64.459/64.850/64.1096.

46 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 64.1223/Bd. 2: 65.3360.

47 Such difficulties call to mind the distinction made between “macrocensorship” and “microcensorship,” as well as the often contorted relationship between the two, in Ohles, Germany's Rude Awakening, 88–108.

48 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 64.1386.

49 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 64.1764/64.1921.

50 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 64.2102/64.2649.

51 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 64.3578. See also the relevant §§7 and 24 of the 1851 Press Law in Gesetz-Sammlung, 275, 279.

52 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 64.4841/65.1532.

53 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 1: 64.1809/64.2276/64.3408. The original German reads Familien-Album. Illustrirtes Flugblatt für Unterhaltung und Belehrung and Am warmen Ofen.

54 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 64.4235.

55 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 64.4992/64.5509/64.5681/64.6112. The original German reads Daheim. Illustrirte Hefte für Unterhaltung und Belehrung (no connection to the family paper published by Velhagen & Klasing), Epheuranken, and Rosenflor.

56 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 64.5126.

57 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 64.6496/64.6520/64.6861/64.9605/64.7736.

58 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 64.6575/64.7172/64.8243/64.8878/64.9796, 65.636/65.802. The tactic of using counterfeit names, for publishing houses as well as proscribed works, was already widespread before 1848. Houben, Heinrich H., Polizei und Zensur. Längs- und Querschnitte durch die Geschichte der Buch- und Theaterzensur (Berlin: Gersbach & Sohn, 1926), 95–96Google Scholar.

59 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 65.2103.

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64 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 65.9628.

65 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 66.2630/66.6628.

66 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 66.2716.

67 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 66.7635.

68 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 66.2989.

69 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 66.4197.

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71 GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 77 Tit. 640 Nr. 11 Bd. 2: 66.6712.

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